From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 20:26:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B204623.EB7F71D3@home.com> From: Larry Elmore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? References: <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1DF8FE.80691865@brighton.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 03:26:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.10.25.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 991970812 65.10.25.74 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:26:52 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:26:52 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10473 comp.lang.ada:8381 comp.lang.awk:2879 comp.lang.clarion:21394 comp.lang.java.programmer:74605 comp.lang.pl1:885 comp.lang.vrml:3623 Date: 2001-06-08T03:26:52+00:00 List-Id: John English wrote: > > Pete Thompson wrote: > > Underscores were used heavily in the past, I'll give you that, but I suspect it > > was mostly because programmers had migrated to C/C++ from other languages where > > the underscore was quite prominent. > > I think you'll find that C code of 20 or 30 years ago (K&R C, long before > ANSI C let alone C++) traditionally used lower_case_with_underlines for > identifiers, and the fashion for namesWithCapitalLetters is a more recent > one... Certainly there are no capital letters used in the standard libraries > other than in #defines, and then they're ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERLINES. > > IIRC the first language where I found namesLikeThis in common usage > was Smalltalk. I first saw it Pascal. I suspect it outdates Smalltalk, but don't know if Pascal adopted it from something earlier. Larry